[flac-dev] History of FLAC Frontend?

[Martijn van Beurden]

Sorry, I wasn't specific enough: there's a GUI bundled with the Windows 
installer as well, which is called 'FLAC Frontend'. It is used a lot but 
it has been broken for years. (just take a look at the Sourceforge bug 
section)

Anyway, I've already started coding a replacement with MSVC 2005.

On 22-01-13 09:41, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Martijn van Beurden wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Lots of bugs and support requests in the sourceforge tracker are related
>> to the FLAC frontend, which is bundled with FLAC for Windows with the
>> installer. However, I couldn't find it in git. I really thought the FLAC
>> frontend was part of the project, but it seems it is some piece of
>> freeware last updated 10 years ago: http://members.home.nl/w.speek/index.htm
>>
>> Is this true? Anyone who knows more on this matter? Is it worth my time
>> coding a replacement?
> Sorry, missed this email.
>
> There definitely is a flac command line utility in the source
> repository. It compiles from main.c in this directory:
>
>      https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=tree;f=src/
>      flac;h=913c7576bc1d2be9a95ed9719243798df11b9d8e;hb=HEAD
>
> Erik